dealer

See also: Dealer

English

Etymology

From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, equivalent to deal +‎ -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈdiːlə(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US)(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːlə(ɹ)

Noun

dealer (plural dealers)

  1. One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.
    Synonyms: salesman, peddler
    That used car dealer gave me a great deal on my 1962 rusted-out Volkswagen bug!
  2. A drug dealer, one who peddles illicit drugs.
    Synonym: peddler
    • 1967, Leonard Cohen (lyrics and music), “The Stranger Song”, in Songs of Leonard Cohen:
      It's true that all the men you knew were dealers
      Who said they were through with dealing
  3. A particular type of stock broker or trader.
  4. The person who deals the cards in a card game.
  5. One who deals or metes out anything.
    • 2018, Kate Stanley, Practices of Surprise in American Literature after Emerson, page 90:
      Dealt a decisive blow, Newman himself becomes a vengeful dealer of blows, perpetuating the repetitive cycle of repression and eruption […]

Derived terms

Translations
drug dealer — see drug dealer

Anagrams

French

Etymology 1

Borrowed from English deal, suffixed with -er.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /di.le/

Verb

dealer

  1. (slang) to deal (drugs)
Conjugation
Conjugation of dealer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
infinitive simple dealer
compound avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1 simple dealant
/di.lɑ̃/
compound ayant + past participle
past participle dealé
/di.le/
singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles
(simple
tenses)		 present deale
/dil/		 deales
/dil/		 deale
/dil/		 dealons
/di.lɔ̃/		 dealez
/di.le/		 dealent
/dil/
imperfect dealais
/di.lɛ/		 dealais
/di.lɛ/		 dealait
/di.lɛ/		 dealions
/di.ljɔ̃/		 dealiez
/di.lje/		 dealaient
/di.lɛ/
past historic2 dealai
/di.le/		 dealas
/di.la/		 deala
/di.la/		 dealâmes
/di.lam/		 dealâtes
/di.lat/		 dealèrent
/di.lɛʁ/
future dealerai
/dil.ʁe/		 dealeras
/dil.ʁa/		 dealera
/dil.ʁa/		 dealerons
/dil.ʁɔ̃/		 dealerez
/dil.ʁe/		 dealeront
/dil.ʁɔ̃/
conditional dealerais
/dil.ʁɛ/		 dealerais
/dil.ʁɛ/		 dealerait
/dil.ʁɛ/		 dealerions
/di.lə.ʁjɔ̃/		 dealeriez
/di.lə.ʁje/		 dealeraient
/dil.ʁɛ/
(compound
tenses)		 present perfect present indicative of avoir + past participle
pluperfect imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
past anterior2 past historic of avoir + past participle
future perfect future of avoir + past participle
conditional perfect conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple
tenses)		 present deale
/dil/		 deales
/dil/		 deale
/dil/		 dealions
/di.ljɔ̃/		 dealiez
/di.lje/		 dealent
/dil/
imperfect2 dealasse
/di.las/		 dealasses
/di.las/		 dealât
/di.la/		 dealassions
/di.la.sjɔ̃/		 dealassiez
/di.la.sje/		 dealassent
/di.las/
(compound
tenses)		 past present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
pluperfect2 imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
simple — deale
/dil/		 — dealons
/di.lɔ̃/		 dealez
/di.le/		 —
compound — simple imperative of avoir + past participle — simple imperative of avoir + past participle simple imperative of avoir + past participle —
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:
  • past historic → present perfect
  • past anterior → pluperfect
  • imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive
  • pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive

(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Borrowed from English dealer.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /di.lœʁ/

Noun

dealer m (plural dealers, feminine dealeuse)

  1. (slang) drug dealer

Anagrams

Indonesian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer, from Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere. Doublet of diler.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [d̪eˈalər]
  • Hyphenation: dé‧a‧lêr

Noun

dealer (first-person possessive dealerku, second-person possessive dealermu, third-person possessive dealernya)

  1. dealer:
    1. distributor
      Synonyms: agen, bandar, distributor, pemasok, penyalur, penyuplai, tauke, pengedar
    2. drug dealer

Further reading

Polish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdi.lɛr/
  • Rhymes: -ilɛr
  • Syllabification: dea‧ler

Noun

dealer m pers (feminine dealerka)

  1. Alternative spelling of diler

Declension
Declension of dealer
singular plural
nominative dealer dealerzy/dealery (depreciative)
genitive dealera dealerów
dative dealerowi dealerom
accusative dealera dealerów
instrumental dealerem dealerami
locative dealerze dealerach
vocative dealerze dealerzy

Derived terms
adjective
  • dealerski
noun
  • dealerstwo

Further reading
  • dealer in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • dealer in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Romanian

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

Noun

dealer m (plural dealeri)

  1. dealer

Declension
Declension of dealer
singular plural
indefinite articulation definite articulation indefinite articulation definite articulation
nominative/accusative (un) dealer dealerul (niște) dealeri dealerii
genitive/dative (unui) dealer dealerului (unor) dealeri dealerilor
vocative dealerule dealerilor

Spanish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from English dealer.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈdileɾ/ [ˈd̪i.leɾ]
  • Rhymes: -ileɾ

Noun

dealer m (plural dealers)

  1. dealer

Usage notes

According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

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